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A glossary of yogic terms or words commonly used in yoga
English is a challenge for some, Sanskrit a mystery to be discovered
These words are used in books about Yoga, Buddhism and Hinduism and they are often a challenge to understand. These words like English sometimes have multiple meanings which I don’t go into, but I hope this page is a useful guide.
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Abhyasa: practice – the
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The world is changing
By GAURI MATAJI DEVI
The phenomenon called “Hindu Awakening” has created a growing favourable interest towards Hinduism not only in India, but at global level. Simultaneously, we have seen that in Western countries there has been a considerable development of neo-pagan movements and a resurgence of ancient native religions and cultures – all of which are fundamentally compatible with Hinduism and are
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The question of intelligent design
Instant karma by gifs
Since scientists discovered DNA, they have been puzzling over its nature. But they couldn’t understand very much and labelled most of our DNA as being junk with absolutely no purpose or value. However ancient scientists had a deeper understanding which gave rise to the concept of Hinduism that still exists today.
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Debunking idol worship
A modern scientific view of our universe
Within what people refer to as Hinduism there is a fundamental desire to know or understand the nature of reality and our place in the universe, and to be free of all suffering.
Within the subcontinent of India and its surrounds, people became seekers of knowledge and not believers and any particular thing. For something to be
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A choice to make you or break you
When you know something, it is completely verifiable through direct experience or scientific method. Yet most of us believe in things that may not necessarily be true or real. There was a time when people believed that the Earth was flat, there was a time when people believed that this earth was the centre of the universe and that the sun rotated
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Words to shape our attitudes
Philosophy is something that we all invent and use to explain our lives and to justify our actions. It is putting together words to help us make sense of our lives and with those words, to explain and justify our existence thereby shaping our future.
Western philosophy is about outward looking based on the idea that the world we see around us is real and
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Perception and reality
Over the past few hundred years, Western science has freed itself from the restraints of the church and is now free to ask what many consider as the ultimate questions. Science has also progressed and through modern analytics, the nature of existence can be explored in finite detail although as yet there is no Western technology that allows the exploration of the infinite.
Morgan Freeman has been
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A heritage the world mostly ignores
Goddess Ganga – a Nepali paintingvia Tumblr
Renowned as a land of colour, the home to Yoga and Buddhism, and a curious range of sciences but ostracised as being third world with unacceptable levels of poverty and crime, yet India has a long heritage that few appreciate.
India was home to the worlds first civilisation with cities, water supplies and sewerage
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The Science of Living and Attaining World Peace
Most people associate the idea of Hinduism with India and the pantheon of gods and goddesses as depicted in this image to the right. But this is only part of the story that stretches back for tens of thousands of years.
There is no quick or five-minute description that can convey much of this subject, but what is referred to as
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What is Real and What is False?
Deciding what is real or what is true and what is false is a challenge that should not be undertaken lightly because the yogis and Buddha’s who have walked this earth before us have testified that everything is an illusion. Therefore there is no absolute reality to be found in this world and asking the question what is ultimately true or false
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